Lyndon Wiggins, the man twice convicted for orchestrating the kidnapping and killing of Minneapolis realtor Monique Baugh, received a life sentence without the possibility of parole on Monday afternoon.

Last month, Wiggins was found guilty in his re-do trial on three charges: aiding and abetting first-degree premeditated murder, aiding and abetting first-degree premeditated attempted murder and aiding and abetting kidnapping.

The premediated murder conviction alone puts him in prison for life. He was also given a 240-month sentence for the attempted murder conviction, which will be served consecutively with the 189 months he received on the kidnapping charge. 

Wiggins was given 1,981 days credit on the kidnapping charge, which is being served concurrently with a federal drug conviction. He was also ordered to pay restitution from his prison wages.

The New Year's Eve killing

Baugh, a 27-year-old mother of two who worked with Kris Lindahl Real Estate, was lured into a sham home showing in Maple Grove, Minnesota, by Wiggins and Elsa Segura on New Year's Eve 2019.

When she arrived, two men — Cedric Berry and Berry Davis — put her into a rental van. The men then drove to the north Minneapolis home of Baugh's boyfriend, Jon Mitchell-Momoh, where Berry and Davis shot him several times. The couple's two young daughters were home at the time.

Hours later, Baugh was found shot dead about six miles south in a northside alley.  

Mitchell-Momoh survived the attack, telling investigators at the time he didn't know who would want to shoot him, but named Wiggins as someone who wanted to harm him.

"We have to ask God to forgive us for not being able to forgive"

Wiggins declined to give a statement before sentencing. Minutes earlier, Wanda Williams-Baugh, Baugh's mother, gave a victim impact statement. She said her daughter was "ambushed, kidnapped, tortured and murdered" due to "beef" between Wiggins and Mitchell-Momoh. 

"The defendant is still trying to save himself from a life sentence which he truly deserves. He had an issue with Momoh. He had a falling out with him. Monique had absolutely nothing to do with what this defendant and Momoh had going on. Nothing," Williams-Baugh said. "Monique was not just Momoh's girlfriend, baby mama or something to use to get back at him, and it sickens me to know that she was murdered behind hearsay and egos."

Williams-Baugh says the impact on Baugh's two young daughters is "heartbreaking."

"We go to Monique's resting place and watch how carefully both girls take care of their mother's marker and memorial bench. They jump right in and they start cleaning and framing her pictures with rose petals," Williams-Baugh said. "They don't like when ants crawl on her marker or if geese poop by it. They're very protective of their mother's space."

In her closing remarks, Williams-Baugh asked for God's forgiveness for not being able to forgive Wiggins, Berry, Davis and Segura.

"All we want now is for this defendant and all others involved to spend the rest of their lives in prison, and then burn in hell after," she said.

Convictions and reversals

In July 2021, Davis and Berry each received life sentences for Baugh's death. Segura was convicted later that year, and Wiggins followed suit in early 2022.

But Segura's and Wiggins' convictions were reversed in 2024 by the Minnesota Supreme Court. In Wiggins case, the court ruled the trial judge gave erroneous legal instructions to the jury. 

In Segura's case, two of the charges she was convicted of — aiding and abetting in first-degree felony murder while committed a kidnapping, and to commit great bodily harm — were upheld.  

But the high court ruled that evidence wasn't strong enough to convict her of aiding and abetting first-degree premeditated murder or premeditated attempted murder. 

Segura ultimately pleaded guilty to kidnapping later that year and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

NOTE: The original airdate of the video attached to this article is Nov. 13, 2025.